we start with the war in ukraine. we ll look at what s happening on the ground in a moment. first to sanctions. eu leaders have finally agreed on a partial embargo of russian oil imports. it will affect oil that arrives by sea. that s around two thirds of imports. this is the second day of the summit. we know that the eu has been trying to work out a way to ban russian oil imports for months. we ll get into why it s been so complicated in a minute. first, this is the president of the european commission. we decided then to have a ban now on de facto 90% russian oil imports of russian oil imports to the european union by the end of the year. and this comes at a time when we see that russia has disrupted supplies to, by now, five member states finland, bulgaria and poland but now to a company in the netherlands and a company in denmark. that message was echoed by the ukrainian foreign ministry. they said. let s look at the bigger picture. russia currently supplies about 27%
let s look at how bad canada s gun violence problem is, the country s rate of gun homicides per 100,000 is 0.5. that s less than a fifth of that in the us, at 4.12 but is still five times the level of australia, at 0.18 the canadian buyback plan is modelled on other efforts in the wake of national tragedies. the uk banned the private ownership of most handguns a year after the murder of 16 children in dunblane. it was the deadliest mass shooting in british history. australia banned nearly all semi automatic rifles after a gunman murdered 35 people at port arthur, in 1996. a buy back scheme was launched, and the government collected more than 600,000 weapons. and new zealand banned semi automatic weapons following the 2019 attacks on two mosques in christchurch that killed 51 people. their buy back programme removed 56,000 guns from circulation, but critics say that s only a third